2019 in Switzerland

Events in the year 2019 in Switzerland.

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See also:	History of Switzerland Timeline of Swiss history List of years in Switzerland

Incumbents

• President of the Swiss Confederation: Ueli Maurer
• President of the National Council: Marina Carobbio Guscetti
• President of the Swiss Council of States: Jean-René Fournier

Events

• 22 September — A 'funeral' and mourning ceremony was held for the Pizol glacier which has disappeared due to rising temperatures.^[1]
• 20 October – Scheduled date for the 2019 Swiss federal election
• 25 November – present 2019 Sri Lankan Swiss embassy controversy.^[2]

Sports

• 1 January – Stage 3 of 2018–19 Tour de Ski was held in Val Müstair

• 19 to 25 August – Scheduled date for the 2019 BWF World Championships, to be held in Basel
• 7 to 15 December – Scheduled date for the 2019 Women's World Floorball Championships, to be held in Neuchâtel

Deaths

Bruno Ganz

• 1 January – Pio Corradi [de], photographer (born 1940)^[3]
• 4 January – Daniel Lüönd [de], musician (b. 1959).^[4]
• 5 January – Beat Junker [de], historian (born 1928)^[5]
• 10 January – Daniel Müller [de], politician (born 1928)^[6]
• 18 January – Bernhard Böschenstein [de], literary scholar (born 1931)^[7]
• 29 January – Otto Schubiger, ice hockey player (born 1925)^[8]
• 15 February – Bruno Ganz, actor (Wings of Desire, Downfall, The Manchurian Candidate) (born 1941)^[9]
• 20 April – Karl Grob, footballer (born 1946)^[10]